From student common room to auction room – Stanley Spencer’s depiction of ‘conscious coupling’ leads Christie’s Mod Brit sale

A painting by Stanley Spencer (1891-1959) from 1938 which had previously hung at St John’s College, Oxford was the top lot at Christie’s evening sale of Modern British art yesterday.

Beatitudes of Love 6: Consciousness was part of a series of works in which Spencer explored the rela…

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